Hercule Colonna

Hercule Colonna (1771-1856) was a general of France.

Biography
Hercule Colonna was born to a Franco-Italian family in the city of Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes region of southern France in 1771. When the levee en masse began in 1814, he was pressed into the army as a Colonel of Fusiliers of Line. He fought in the defense of France against Austrian, Prussian, and Swedish armies and fought in the Battle of Denain in February 1814. He retired after the fall of Napoleon and died in 1856.